pyTivo rules!! Its working fantastic for me, I just start it up, it runs for days with me using it frequently but never once having to go and restart it or touch it in anyway on my server! Yeah!

All my videos are displaying nicely now too. They mostly where all ready but the last couple rounds of your guys improvements in the ffmpeg settings has got the only couple troublesome videos I have displaying nicely now too.

Something entirely unrelated, well just barely because its also written in Python. Unrelated even to Tivos but I suspect a lot of you folks might like this. I've been using a web based mp3 streamer for years which is entirely written it Python. Its called edna , its works fantastic. I can point and click listen to my entire music collection from anywhere. Its another program I've got configured to autostart when my system boots and then I just use it frequently but never ever have to mess with any glitches because like pyTivo, it just works.

I just committed version 179. It adds the 16:9 blacklist while defaulting to use 16:9. It also has per tivo settings for aspect ratio. The per tivo config block will look like

##Per tivo options
# section named _tivo_TSN with the tsn in all caps
[_tivo_2400000DEADBEEF]

#If you want to use 16:9 or 4:3 on this tivo
aspect169=true

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Awesome armoo!
I look forward to trying it out.

BTW, I have a very talented (computer graphics artist) student worker who has some free time in my office. I am going to have him draw up some logo's for everyones perusal. Perhaps one of them will be good enough to become the official pyTivo logo..

If you could post some note here I am sure all OSX users would appreciate it. And if you want you can send me the compiled ffmpeg in some format that won't corrupt it, "zip" maybe?? I dunno.

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Ok the wiki page is edited and a compiled version of ffmpeg which works for me is also linked there as well. Just out of curiosity is pyTivo limited to 56 files in one directory? Tivo.Net sees all 60 of my mp4 files (using the same ffmpeg as pyTivo too) but pyTivo only shows 56.

It looks like a documentation error. The "audio" plugin is called music not audio. I will go fix that now.

The the music plugin it a very simple plugin for the Music and Photos section. It only supports mp3s, you can not fast forward / rewind in a song, but it takes very few resources. Unlike galleon I can run it while I am playing games without problems.

Personally I'm pretty happy with Galleon which is always running on my box so I'd never bothered to try the music in pyTivo. Tried it just now though, works fine for me. I'm running Linux also Windracer. May as well say I know nothing about Python but hey this is the internet where lack of knowledge is no reason to refrain from spouting off an opinion -- to me it looks like even though you have zlib on your system your Python doesn't have support for zlib.

I've recently played around with Tivo.Net and pyTivo. I love them both. I do like the simplicity of pyTivo, but I like the added configuration allowed with Tivo.Net.

One example, I like being able to set the quality of the video. Although I'm no expert and it's hard for me to tell sometimes, I believe the quality of the video stream is higher with Tivo.Net (when using the higher quality video settings).

Sorry everyone I have been swamped with work the past few days, and it doesn't look like it is going to get much better. I will be out of town from th 29th to the 9th so I will be absolutely no help.

But in the mean time, I never got to it, but inthewoods made a bunch of mods that I never got to check out. But included in it was the ability to change bitrate settings and width settings. Everything looked pretty good to me but like I said I had little chance to tinker with it. Armooo check it out in his post here it should save you some time.

In the mean time again I apologize for sneaking away for a few days, but hopefully when I get back I can kick in some more time for new features.

4096 kbps for video + 192 kbps for audio. And I believe it would be very easy to make this configurable via pyTivo.conf .

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This is higher quality than most things I'd be transferring from my PC, so I just edited this number in the file "transcode.ty" (to 1024), and now I'm getting smaller (and faster) transfers. I particularly like the speed to be such that I can watch it as I transfer.

I don't know if this is related however, but my Tivo warns me that it might have to delete a number of recordings early or not be able to record things if I transfer a video now. I only just started with pyTivo a week ago, so I don't know if this is because I changed the bitrate, or because of the video I happen to be transferring.

Next question: I have an external, Network attached hard drive. It is a bit slow, but I can use Videora to transcode a video that is sitting on that drive (and the transcoding takes less time than the length of the video), so it is fast enough for that. However, if I try to make my Video directory for pyTivo some directory on that hard drive, I get the message in the Now Playing list that it couldn't create the list due to an error. (Can't remember exact message, but it isn't descriptive)

Note that I've never had success using this network drive for my "My Tivo Recordings" directory either.